Posted on 05/22/2018 11:13:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
WEST ASHLEY, S.C. (WCIV) — The signs of a graduation party are still left around the house of the Koscinski family.
Jacob graduated Saturday with the highest honors from a Christian-based home-schooling program. So, his mom ordered a cake.
"He did not know we were getting a cake because he's not a big cake eater. So we were all standing there waiting to see it and when we opened it, it was a huge shock to all of us," said Cara Koscinski.
She explained how she ordered the 3/4 inch sheet cake online through Publix.
But when she requested the bakery include Jacob's honor, she was alerted that profane or special characters weren't allowed. Cara clarified her request with special instructions.
"The website had censored me and this is a website that you can refer to for the Latin term for Summa Cum Laude which means highest honors," she said.
Cara said when her husband picked up the cake from Publix on Savannah Highway and Main Road, he didn't know the bakery omitted the middle Latin word. It was replaced with hyphens.
"The cake experience was kind of frustrating and humiliating because I had to explain to my friends and family like what that meant. And they were giggling uncontrollably. At least my friends were," said Jacob Koscinski.
The Koscinskis said a manager from Publix apologized and offered a refund. For now, they're nibbling on the leftover dessert, and looking forward to Jacob's freshman year at Wingate University.
"It's fine for us to be compensated for the cake. We're just happy that our son graduated school and has a bright future," said Cara Koscinski.
Jacob's grade point average is an impressive 4.89. He plans to major in pre-med.
ABC News 4 reached out to Publix to find out why the website confuses this honor with a profanity. But corporate officials didn’t respond to our question.
Humans depend on programs that they write. The program CANNOT be smarter than the person who wrote it, but they bow down and worship the program and never never question if it is functioning correctly.
It wasn’t the decorator’s fault. The online ordering system was set up to reject any obscene or profane language. That meant the person ordering was unable to include the word “cum” in their order. The decorator made the cake to the specs of the online entry.
need an exemption process for foreign languages
Just as well, what type of woman would live in an obscene town?
Sheet cake is a real thing.
And yet, they’d like us to trust AI to drive us here and there.
No thank you.
“Sheet cake is a real thing.”
I know that, as is 1/4 sheet cake, 1/2 sheet cake, and 3/4 sheet cake, but not “3/4 inch sheet cake”.
One specifies the fraction of sheet cake, or full sheet cake.
Sheet cakes are not 3/4” tall.
Piece of cake!.....................
I keep hoping to find out, but it won’t let me ask the out!
Everyone misunderstands the word “shortcake.” Our local diner has a huge cake with white icing and strawberries which they call “strawberry shortcake,” presumably because it has strawberries.
Shortcake a very small biscuit-type cake that you can make the classic dessert out of.
No, not really. Check out the images under “shortcake” at Google.
Yep.
My word play in post #5 had nothing to do with shortcake until post #15. :-)
I knew someone in HR who told me his company’s porn-spam firewall routinely blocked incoming resumes of anyone who had graduated summa cum laude.
Summa cum culpa.
No...
IGNORANCE unleashed with no adult supervision!
Well played, sir.
Bingo. It’s amazing how, when faced with a double entendre, the “highly moral” people will run right over and dive into the gutter.
They give degrees in molecular biology in public school?
I’d demand a refund on your degree - your reading comprehension needs work.
I wasn’t denigrating the award winner - I was denigrating that the cake decorator didn’t know the difference between a potentially offensive term and a Latin phrase and blindly followed the rules without giving the father a heads up when he picked up the cake.
Again - don’t you think the cake decorator would’ve KNOWN and contacted the parents to confirm?!
At a bakery in a supermarket? Nope....
If it was a private specialty bakery absolutely... but in a supermarket? Nope, not at all...
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